Video: A Closer Look at China's Homegrown Sunway BlueLight Super

In this video, we get a closer look at the components of the Sunway BlueLight supercomputer in China. The recently announced Petaflop machine is based on a Chinese 16-core processor, rumored to be a derivative of the DEC Alpha 21164. Sunway BlueLight is expected to come in somewhere around number 20 in the pending TOP500 list, which is expected to be release on Nov. 15, 2011.

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